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Of course, you can find the full explanation in the amicus brief: https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work... It is NP complete in determining to an absolute de…

This is not only much needed, but also will help shape how our legal system can adapt to new technologies. I had the privilege of sitting in on an Election Law class last year at Y…

If you exclusively consider the value of the puts, then yes they made a killing. But Mexico didn't use the puts to take a huge directional speculative bet - it used them to hedge o…

Yup. But I didn't take the offer.

The fingerprint scanner is intended to benefit the company, not the users. It makes it significantly more difficult to share an account, which protects Bloomberg's $24,000 / user /…

I would recommend talking with a lawyer before taking any actions to circumvent international sanctions. There are very severe civil and criminal penalties.

C++ is deep and nuanced, so reading books will help structure your learning. I've found Scott Meyer's books to be great for starting out. Those will give you a fantastic foundation…

To get a better understanding of the fundamentals of python I'm going through reading various PEP's - a few recommendations of important ones would be helpful

The problem is that the rev/user isn't constant. If they get more users, they earn more from each user. And conversely, if they lose users, they earn less from everyone. So even if…

I feel like your pricing is off. $29/week is too expensive for consumers, yet far too cheap if you plan to get reimbursed from insurers. Especially considering you'll need a lot of…

Can anyone explain how they decide which requests to reject? The blog post just mentions that excess RPS gets rejected, but couldn't rejecting arbitrary requests cause other proble…

"'We’re trying to figure out if we can predict how much shortcutting ants will do given a geometry of their environment,' Garnier said." Garnier clearly states that they haven't fi…

Interesting topic but the title is misleading - the article concludes saying scientists still haven't figured out the algorithm. It would be nice if the title actually reflected th…

Who does this and do you have a source? It would be interesting to learn more

Actually I read the whole thing - it was written really well. But it's far from extremely clever what he did. Anyone who's studied tenancy law for more than a few days could do the…

This article does not belong on HN.

Graduating and going through the hiring process last year, I realized how true this is and how important your tech pedigree is. I recieved no full time offers before interning at A…

Google has an in-house litigation team that would have already been on payroll. Sure they had to pay for expert witnesses and court fees, but the total would be far less than what …

Sure but we can always find an arbitrarily 'better' use of any donation by looking at it from a utilitarian perspective

Amazon hires plenty people of both classes, recent grads and experienced hires. But from my impression I think they hire more recent grads than any other tech company.

So any article under the sun is relevant for HN? That's definitely not the case as mods frequently remove posts, and as much as they would like to be, mods are not arbiters of inte…

I find it really annoying that top two articles on HN are completely separate from engineering. Since when have posts from news sources been able to not just make it to the front p…

Shouldn't we be able to look at the blockchain to determine if online exchanges are operating as fractional reserves? Why is it so difficult to do this, and why did it come as a hu…